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Twice this term, Stewart has publicly chided his brethren for passing up chances to tackle the misdemeanor issue. In October came the case of an indigent Little Rock, Ark., Negro busboy, who was found necking with a white waitress and convicted of "immorality," a local misdemeanor. Tried without counsel, he spent 91 months in jail, working off his 30-day sentence and $254 fine at $1 per day. Only Justice Hugo Black joined Stewart in holding that the case should be reviewed. But such acceptance requires the votes of four justices, and Stewart argued in vain that...
Born Restless. Born in 1912, the youngest of 15 children of a taciturn Kansas farmer, Parks began his search at 16, when his mother died and his family scattered. He worked as a busboy and a waiter, a piano player in a Minneapolis whorehouse and a janitor in a Chicago flophouse, a runner for a Harlem dope pusher, a dining-car waiter and a lumberjack for the Civilian Conservation Corps. He was so poor that he often slept on trolley cars, and he regularly raided trash barrels for discarded newspapers so that he could check the classifieds for jobs...
Seven Jars to Satisfaction. Yet, for all his fame, Soule was never himself a chef, though he began developing a taste for fine food early in life and until the end glowingly recalled his mother's specialty: puree of salt codfish, served lukewarm. He was a busboy in Biarritz at 14, by 23 had become the youngest captain of waiters (at Le Mirabeau) in Paris. In 1939 he came to New York to manage the French restaurant at the World's Fair, in 1941 opened Le Pavilion, later added a second Manhattan restaurant, La Cote Basque...
...attention. When he walks into a Manhattan restaurant, hardly anyone notices. But he notices everything. Is the decor adequate? Does the headwaiter seem anxious to get on to someone else? Is there any single offering out of the ordinary on the menu? Is the wine overpriced? Is the busboy attentive to such details as discarded swizzle sticks and filled ashtrays? Are the service plates set just right? Then, having eaten and paid for his meal, Craig Claiborne, food and restaurant editor of the New York Times, goes on his way, full of sharp impressions...
First in Johannesburg, and then the Rhodesias, Sigauke took jobs, from busboy to boxer, until he finally landed a well-paying position as a traveling salesman, peddling clothing to retailers all over Northern Rhodesia and Nyasaland. "That job brought status because I owned a car," he says. "I drove an Opel and then a Biscayne for two years, and I learned to know every road and every Mozambican in the Rhodesias." On one return trip to Mozambique he was arrested by the authorities, who could not believe that an African could earn enough money...